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EFFECT OF PAPAIN-DIGESTED, UNIVALENT ANTIBODY AGAINST SPERM-BINDING FACTOR ON THE FERTILIZABILITY OF SEA URCHIN EGGS
Motonobu Yoshida1, Kenji Aketa1
1Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464, Japan.
Development, Growth & Differentiation
|June 7, 2023
Abstract:
Papain-digested, anti-sperm-binding factor serum which has only a species-specific antibody, deprives the egg of fertilizability as well as does undigested serum. This effect is shown to be exerted by direct masking of species-specific sperm-binding sites on the vitelline layer by univalent antibodies.

